Just going through the blogroll and revisiting some old favorites preparatory to cleaning the present list up. One I’ve always liked is “Rubber Slippers in Italy”. Here Rowena posts about…

For those of us who work with wizards, the world is a little shadowier today. I can’t say that I knew Diana well — except in the way that any…

  For those who’re interested: the release of the AWoM paperback is scheduled for May 2, 2011, and you can preorder it now. In the hotly anticipated ninth installment of…

After the posting that went up yesterday on the unavailability of digital versions of the Young Wizards books in Canada, we had a really interesting response in the comments… Hi…

23/24 Mar 2011: ETA: There’s been an important change in the situation described below. Please read the posting and then check this one for news on recent developments. I love…

Sort of. Maybe. I don’t care: I’m really excited about this. With reason, I think. Sir Terry Pratchett and Rod Brown, Managing Director of Prime Focus Productions, announce that they…

Just one of those strange moments. Watching Sky News as the situation in Libya continues to unfold. Some video from this morning, from outside Benghazi, runs. A bright sunny day.…

Just saw this for the first time. Hysterical. (And there are more stacked up at the Cravendale TV channel at YouTube, apparently.) [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6CcxJQq1x8[/youtube]

The one that failed to get us home from the volcano last year. Yeah, that one.  …Do not be drinking anything while you’re watching this. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPyl2tOaKxM&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

So after doing some early-morning work, the serious business of the day begins: tweeting recipes from “EuroCuisineLady” at @EuropeanCuisine, making some soda bread (just accidental: we ran out of the…

It’s just after midnight of what many native Irish call “The Day That’s In It,” and as a result, only maybe a third or a quarter of the people coming…

If anyone’s interested: here are a couple of 1920×1200 wallpapers of Swiss alpine scenery generated with Terragen 2. The first is one of a number of studies of the north…

This essay appeared a couple of years ago in the Smart Pop Books release Through the Wardrobe: Your Favorite Authors on C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia. It was a…

I just want to direct everybody’s attention to Chris Meadows’ article here, which is brilliantly expressive of some of the problems I’ve been noticing a lot more acutely of late…

In the heart of Dublin, something is killing the People of the Hills — and it’s going to take Ireland’s only superhero to stop it… In honor of Saint Patrick’s…

Which means “in Irish”. Paul Dini is an old friend of ours. I first met him in the ’80s while working on some development stuff at Filmation in LA: my…

I have something new it’s been on my mind to start doing over here, but Lee the Tech Lady (who has increasingly been handling the details of the more twitchy…

The International Edition of High Wizardry is now out in the Kindle Store at Amazon.com and the DianeDuane.com online bookshop. This edition duplicates the text of the North American High…

For quite a long while now, the sold-but-never-published novel A Wind from the South has been available for free on its site at http://raetiantales.blogspot.com, and has done… okay. It’s also…

The International Edition of Deep Wizardry is now out in the Kindle Store at Amazon.com and the DianeDuane.com online bookshop. This edition duplicates the text of the North American Deep…

The stats, they are a-risin’. And the Irish desserts are getting a lot of attention. I commend them to you (click on the image for the full collection).   That’s…

So Uptown Local and Other Interventions is finally ready! I’ve been wanting to collect a batch of favorite stories together for a while now, and an ebook seemed like the…

We’re starting to put together the book trailer for the paperback edition of A Wizard of Mars (which comes out in May) and I thought I might start putting up…